Tiny Dancer

You Want a Revolution, We Want a Revelation

Naomi P.O.V

"The Handler stole you, Lila,"I said stepping from behind Diego,"Just like our asshole father took all of us."

"No, it's not the same thing."

"You're right,"Diego spoke up,"because he didn't have our parents murdered. Listen to me Lila, you were born October 1, 1989, the same day as all of us."

Diego took a step forward take the knife that Lila was holding up only for her to react,"Stay back!"

All of us stood still before cautiously taking a step forward, I accidentally let out a squeak as Grace and Benji shadow traveled next to my side. Diego took this the wrong way and held out his hands in front and said in a stern tone,"hey, hey wait!"

"I trusted you! I got you a job, I even introduced you to my mother, and then you took off on me!"

"Because I needed to save the world, and I'm engaged; which you knew about!"

"She's using you Lila,"I say turning her attention to me,"The Handler."

"She loves me!"

"Yeah, you know what,"Luther barged in," love shouldn't have to hurt this much."

There was a moment of silence before Lila stuck her tongue out and let out a fake gag of disgust, I couldn't help but let out a snort of laughter only for me to clamp a hand over my mouth.

"He's right we have to kill her,"Five muttered out stepping forward, I just clenched my fist holding him in place and Diego took a step forward towards Lila.

"Hey, Five stop. I got this,"Diego exclaimed as he place his hand on Lila's shoulder, her focus turning to him," Lila, truth? She's dangerous, and you're scared of what she'll do with all that new power. That's why you dragged me to the Commission, because I know what it's like to love dangerous people," he said motioning to the rest on the family, his gaze on me a little longer making my cheeks turn pink,"the difference is the love me back."

"Shut up,"Lila said through gritted teeth, and I could tell Diego was getting to her.

"The only thing she loves is power. Now, the minute she can't use you, she will turn on you, and deep down, I know you know that."

"You don't know me Diego."

"Don't I? I know that we can be your family, if you let us."

This clearly moved Lila as she finally allowed tears to fall from her eyes, and we all watch her sympathetically as she sniffles and rubs her nose. All of the sudden the sound of gunshots breaking through the silence, pain was the only thing I felt, not even having time to protect my kids first as I fell to the ground, my vision darkening, not aware that time was rewinding to a few seconds back.

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"I know that we can be your family, if you just let us."

We hear a gasp as Five struggles to wrestle the machine gun from The Handler's hand, I just flicked my wrist and the gun flew into my hands. Five took the machine gun and pointed it at The Handler who held her hands up in surrender.

"It's true, isn't it? What Five said," Lila seethed out angrily.

But before The Handler could take in a deep breath there was another wave of gunshots and I rushed to cover the eyes of my children as the oldest Swed filled The Handler with bullets, resulting in her falling to the floor dead; there was a pause before Lila ran for the case.

"The case,"Luther cried out as he charged towards Lila only for Diego to stop him and the two fell to the floor.

Lila took this as a chance as she zapped herself away with the case. Five pointed the gun at the Swed who had his gun pointed at us and the two stood facing each other, not moving. It was a moment of no one moving before Grace moved from behind me next to Five, ignoring my attempts to try and hold her back. Grace lowered Five's gun before taking a step forward face to face with the barrel of a gun and she whispered,"tillräckligt (enough)."

The Swed pauses for a moment before copying Grace's actions, then dropping the gun,"tillräckligt (enough)," then turned around to walk away.

Once he was far away Grace ran to the doorway of the barn and waved," Hejdå Herr svenska man, jag är ledsen för dina bröder. Jag önskar er en god framtid!( Goodbye Mr. Swedish man, I'm sorry about your brothers. I wish you a good future!)"

I could see the Swed smile lightly and wave back before walking away. I ran to Grace and engulfed her into a hug and started scolding her the second we broke apart,"Grace Vanya Hargreeves! What the hell were you thinking! You put your life at risk and came face to face with an assassin with a gun!"

"I'm sorry mommy, but I heard his thoughts! He was hurting and wasn't going to shoot me momma, I wouldn't have don't that if I knew he was going to kill me."

I pressed a kiss to her head and pulled her into another hug, not letting her go.

"I almost had her, why the hell did you stop me," Luther protested.

"She's my friend!"

"Give her some time Luther," I said holding my two children close to me.

Unfortunately it wasn't just over yet, as we heard Sissy cry out for help and the nine of us ran down to the cellar. We all crowded around as Vanya went through the colorful barrier that Harlan had surrounding him and crouched down in front of him.

"Harlan? Harlan! Whatever it is I gave you, I can take it back, okay?"

Vanya placed her hands on his knees and started extracting the power that she accidentally handed to him. After a while, the colorful barrier started fading and Vanya fell back panting and we knew that all this chaos was over. Like a mother should Harlan found himself pulled into a hug by Sissy who was sobbing and holding him close to her, and a small smile was on my face as the rest of the family looked at Vanya with a shocked smile on their faces, proud of her that she was finally getting a hang of her powers.